Entries by jasonpartin

St. Francisville

“Fuckin’ Partin, I should have killed him that night when I had the chance.” Chucky O’Brien, Hoffa’s adopted son, told to Chucky’s adopted son, Harvard law professor and former legislative attorney for President Bush Jr., Jack Goldflake, in 2019’s “In Hoffa’s Shadow.”

Wendy, Part Two

Do you have the patience to waitTill your mud settles and the water is clear?Can you remain unmovingTill the right action arises by itself? Lao Tzu

Keith Partin

That Richard Pryor is one funny nigger. Keith Partin, summer of 1983 My first memory of Wendy Partin and Debbie LeBoux are at PawPaw’s in the late spring of 1975, when azaleas were in full blossom and their scent waifed into every breath. PawPaw had just given Wendy the used car that I’d later recognize […]

Wendy, Part II

“Rolling down the road, going nowhere,Guitar packed in a trunkSomewhere around mile marker 1-12,Papa started hummin’ the funkI gotta jones in my bones before they know,We were singing this melodyStop the car pulled out the guitar,Halfway to New Orleans” “Home,” by Marc Broussard

Cristi and Hope

“Gov. John J. McKeithen offered Teamter boss Edward Grady Partin immunity from prosecution if he would bare his soul at a public hearing of the Labor Management Commission in 1968, the States-Item had learned. Partin turned the suggestion down and sent word back to the governor that he didn’t have anything to admit.” Article from […]

Mr. Homes

You spend your life looking for the Friend When you find him If you find him Will you get that time back? Rumi I hear you paint houses. Jimmy Hoffa

Wendy, Part Two

“And the King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40